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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Eliot emigrated to Boston, Massachusetts, arriving on November 3 of what year?
(a) 1642.
(b) 1631.
(c) 1647.
(d) 1616.

2. What university did John Eliot attend?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Jesus College, Cambridge.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Oxford College.

3. Medfield, Massachusetts, was first settled in what year?
(a) 1654.
(b) 1616.
(c) 1649.
(d) 1677.

4. What is defined as an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition?
(a) Savagery.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Civilization.
(d) Culture.

5. In 1600, the population of the Wampanoag numbered approximately how many members?
(a) 12,000.
(b) 15,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 5,000.

6. What was a Native American tribe formerly inhabiting western Massachusetts, especially around the confluence of the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers in Franklin County?
(a) The Mohegan tribe.
(b) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(c) The Nipmuc tribe.
(d) The Narragansett tribe.

7. John Sassamon was born circa what year?
(a) 1612.
(b) 1600.
(c) 1688.
(d) 1648.

8. Increase Mather was the youngest of how many brothers?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

9. Who served as governor of Plymouth Colony from 1673 to 1680?
(a) Josiah Winslow.
(b) John Alderman.
(c) William Hubbard.
(d) Richard Callicot.

10. When did Hugo Grotius die?
(a) 1677.
(b) 1642.
(c) 1672.
(d) 1645.

11. In the Great Swamp Fight, it is believed that the militia killed about how many Narragansetts?
(a) 200.
(b) 100.
(c) 56.
(d) 300.

12. Where was William Hubbard born?
(a) New York, NY.
(b) England.
(c) Philadelphia, PA.
(d) New Brunswick, Canada.

13. The colonists considered news distributed by whom to be the least reliable, according to the author in Part One, Language, Chapter 2, The Story of It Printed?
(a) The English.
(b) Cambridge newspapers.
(c) The Indians.
(d) Boston newspapers.

14. What was the name of the Algonquian language?
(a) Nanatuncket.
(b) Ouachitan.
(c) Massachusett.
(d) Mohegan.

15. What is the name of a group of Algonquian Indians native to Worcester County, Massachusetts?
(a) The Nipmuc tribe.
(b) The Mohegan tribe.
(c) The Pocomtuc tribe.
(d) The Narragansett tribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was John Eliot born?

2. John Sassamon's family died during the smallpox epidemic of what year?

3. On what date did the Narragansetts attack Providence, destroying it?

4. When was Nathaniel Saltonstall born?

5. The colonists lost about how many men in the Great Swamp Fight?

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